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The wall of sound of Thomas Holkenborg's synth score launches a sustained assault on the ears to match the visual blitzkrieg. Godzilla Vs Kong is an overblown monster-mashing smackdown, which brings together behemoth brawlers from Godzilla: King Of The Monsters and Kong: Skull Island.ĭirector Adam Wingard's film has just one emotional string to its bow, the bond between cherubic Jia and the ape, and scriptwriters Eric Pearson and Max Borenstein pluck it frantically between impressive yet exhausting set pieces.īombastic action sequences, choreographed in luscious slow-motion, bludgeon character development and plausible plotting into a coma. Meanwhile, Madison Russell (Millie Bobby Brown), daughter of Monarch's deputy director of special projects (Kyle Chandler), unravels a conspiracy involving Apex with her wise-cracking classmate (Julian Dennison) and a conspiracy theorist podcaster (Brian Tyree Henry). The mission is bank-rolled by Walter Simmons (Demian Bichir), chief executive of Apex Cybernetics. Starring: Alexander Skarsgard, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Julian Dennison, Kyle Chandler, Demian Bichir, Kaylee Hottle.ĪNTHROPOLOGIST Dr Ilene Andrews (Rebecca Hall) works for secret scientific organisation Monarch on Skull Island, safely containing Kong inside a hi-tech dome where her deaf ward Jia (Kaylee Hottle) secretly communicates with the prize specimen using sign language.įormer Monarch scientist Nathan Lind (Alexander Skarsgard) implores Ilene to let him transport Kong to Antarctica to prove his crackpot theory about a hollow earth ecosystem at our planet's core.

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Home Entertainment, Action/Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Adventure, available now on Amazon Prime Video/BT TV Store/iTunes/Sky Store/TalkTalk TV Store and other download and streaming services, available from June 14 on DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £26.99/4K Ultra HD Blu-ray £34.99) GODZILLA VS KONG (Cert 12, 108 mins, Warner Bros.

The actresses expertly plumb despair and longing in wordless sequences, captured in bold strokes by cinematographer Stephane Fontaine, who relishes the furious splendour of Mother Nature at work on the rugged landscapes of south-west England. Winslet's stoic trailblazer, who barely registers feelings as she prowls the beaches in search of fossils, is a stark counterpoint to Ronan's effervescent woman of learning and privilege, who has been rendered numb by the recent loss of a child. Writer-director Francis Lee's follow-up to the multi-award-winning God's Own Country doesn't quite match the heady erotic charge of a closeted farmer's son and a Romanian immigrant worker in West Yorkshire but it's equally elegant and assured in the distillation of complex feelings. He entreats Mary to take care of Charlotte for 'four weeks, perhaps five… no more than six' in the hope that the bracing sea air and walks along the coastline will improve his wife's disposition and reignite her maternal spirit.Īmmonite is a beautifully crafted period romance, which adopts a colour-bleached palette to reflect the characters' frozen emotional states. She ekes out a thankless living alongside her perspicacious mother Molly (Gemma Jones) by selling fossils and curios to tourists through the family business in Lyme Regis.įellow palaeontologist Roderick Murchison (James McArdle) arrives in town with his young wife Charlotte (Saoirse Ronan), who is in the grip of 'mild melancholia'. PIONEERING 19th-century palaeontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) is not credited properly for her discoveries by a patriarchal scientific community, which proudly displays her painstakingly excavated work in museum cabinets in London. Starring: Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones, James McArdle.

AMMONITE (Cert 15, 117 mins, Lionsgate Home Entertainment UK Ltd, Romance/Drama, available now via Premium Video On Demand rental, available from June 11 on Amazon Prime Video/BT TV Store/iTunes/Sky Store/TalkTalk TV Store and other download and streaming services, available from June 14 on DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99)

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